Re: [css3-lists] Where can the counter() function be used?

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:59 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> > So the question is: where can counter() be used?
>> > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-lists/ shows it being used in the
>> > content: property, but is that the only place? Should the spec say
>> > what it's applicability is?
>>
>> It should be usable anywhere - it just returns a string based on the
>> value of a counter on that element.  2.1 limited it to 'content',
>> but there are more string-valued properties now and in the future
>> where it may potentially be useful.
>
> Anywhere?  That sounds just plain silly, user agents would need to
> completely revise parsing to handle this.  And for what?

When you can interpret something I say either as me being stupid or as
me just leaving off obvious qualifications, go for the latter.  If
it's the former, I'll make that clear soon enough.  ^_^

I obviously meant "as a component value of any property being applied
to an element".

~TJ